Explanation of Depression On Lifestyle through the Mediation of Social Health and Quality of Life in adults of ahwaz (Text in Persian)hussein skandari *؛ Abdolamir Gatezadeh؛ ahmad borjali؛ faramarz sohrabiPages 1-21Abstract Full Text [PDF 460KB]

Background: Recently، especially in developed countries، the relationship between lifestyle and various diseases has attracted the attention of many professionals. One of the pillars of the community health assessment is، psychological and social health of the community.

Objective: The purpose of this study was to clarify of depression on lifestyle with social health and quality of life and has been fitted.

Method: The study population consisted of all adults in Ahvaz. People in a multistage random cluster sampling، 383 were selected. Research data in this study were collected by using a health promoting lifestyle questionnaire Walker and Plyrky (1987)، Keynesian social health (2004)، the World Health Organization quality of life (1989) and beck depression (1996). Research hypotheses were confirmed by using Pearson correlation path analysis and modeling.

Findings: The results confirmed the model's hypotheses، Lifestyle has a direct effect on depression and lifestyle through the mediation of social health and quality of life had an indirect effect on depression.

Conclusion: According to the results of research to explain the depression can be used from lifestyles and social health and quality of life.

Purpose: The objective of this study was to determine the effectiveness of psychological empowerment training program based on individual psychology Adler's theory on female-headed household’s learned helplessness.

Methods: This study was counducted by semi-experimental method ، and its design was pretest posttest with a control group. The population of this study were female-headed households of Imam Khomeini Relief Foundation in Hamedan province، that was selected by the multi-stage cluster sampling and 30 samples were selected. Research instrument was learned helplessness scale (LHS). To analyze the data، univariate analysis of covariance was used. To achieve the study objectives quantitative methods were used. The study sample consisted of female-headed households in Hamedan provine. The participants in the study consisted of 30 women who were were assigned by clustering sampling. To validate increased psychological empowerment interventionist model، the experimental group was exposed to nine determined one-and-half- an hour group intervention sessions.

Findings: The results showed that psychological empowerment training program has effects on the reduction of learned helplessness female-headed household’s learned helplessness (p<0/07) and follow up testing also confirmed the same.

Results: Psychological empowerment is the process of empowering people by helping them improve their feeling of ability and competence، and overcome the feeling of their impotence and helplessness. So، It is suggested that training programs for women's empowerment be supported by the agenda Relief Committee and other institutions، as one of the effective programs.

Since we have witnessed an increase in the number of divorce and single-parent families، paying more attention to importance problems among mother-headed families that face multiple difficulties seems necessary. Therefore، this study was conducted with aim of exploration the pathologies in mother-headed families. This study was a qualitative research، in which the content analysis approach was applied. The research procedure consisted the participation of 38 mother-headed families in focus group discussion sessions، literature review and semi-structured interview by 10 researchers in the field of family in a 12 months period in 2016. To analyze the collected and registered data، they were coded in 3 phases of open coding، axial coding and selective coding. Data analysis led to extraction of the 12 main themes of problems and psychological disorders of mothers، physically problems of mothers، psychological problems and disorders of children، physically problems of children، children's educational problems، employment problems، interpersonal problems among family members، former husband and his family problems، financial problems، housing problems، problems of family of origin and problems of people around and social support networks. This study provided a new understanding of the experiences of mother-headed families by describing their problems. The roots of this problems in addition to individual and interpersonal problems، are in changes in social structure of our society. Therefore، results showed this families has significant problems in various aspects of their families that require more attention by authorities.

The aim of this article is to determine the effectiveness of brief object relations psychotherapy on reduction of interpersonal sensitivity، interpersonal awareness and need for approval of individuals with Avoidant Personality syndrome. This is a Single – Subject A-B design with multiple baseline and one month following up. Statistical society consisted of all individuals 18 to 30 years old who referred to the Psychology Clinic of Faculty of Education and Psychology of Ferdowsi University after seeing the announcements of research design between February 2016 and March 2016. Sampling method was purposeful. 34 individuals referred to the clinic and among them 3 individuals had Avoidant Personality syndrome which selected by Millon Clinical Multitaxial Inventory (MCMI-III) and Structural Clinical Interview for assessing Axis II (SCID-II). The research participants at baseline، fifth، tenth and sixteenth sessions and one month after the intervention، responded to the interpersonal Sensitivity Measure questionnaire (IPSM). The brief psychotherapy accomplished in 16 sessions. Data analysis was done by using visual analysis chart، effect size and percentages of overlapping and non-overlapping data. Results showed that، brief object relations psychotherapy reduced the interpersonal sensitivity، interpersonal awareness and need for approval of research participants significantly at the end of the therapy and in the following up period. It can be said that brief object relations psychotherapy is effective in reducing the symptoms of individuals with avoidant personality syndrome.

The Efficiency of Intervention based of Life Story (Who Am I?) on Emotional adjustment and Perceived Competence in Adolescents with Intellectual Disability (Text in Persian)Ahmad Yarmohamadian؛ Amir Ghamarani *؛ Adel MohamadzadePages 105-131Abstract Full Text [PDF 405KB]

The purpose of this study was to investigate the effectiveness of intervention based of life story on emotional adjustment and perceived competence in adolescents with mild intellectual disability. This study was type of applied research and the design of research was experimental pre-test/post-test with control group. That way، by simple random sample and considering inclusion and exclusion criteria، 30 people were selected from the population of adolescents with intellectual disability (16 to 24 years old) that studied at exceptional schools of Dorche city of Isfahan in 2016. Then these participants were randomly assigned into either control or experimental group (15 per group). The experimental group received life story intervention for 17 sessions and 3 sessions per week. The study tools were included the adjustment inventory for school students- AISS (Sinha & Singh، 1993) and Harter's perceived competence scale (1982) and MANCOVA analysis was used to analysis of data. The results showed efficiency of intervention life story on emotional adjustment and perceived competence is significant in α=0.05 level. Therefore life story intervention can be used to increase emotional adjustment and perceived competence adolescents with mild intellectual disability

Qualitative Analysis of checking the Role of Community Modernization with Virtual Media on Family Structure (Text in Persian)babak eslamzadeh *؛ masoume esmaeily؛ somaye kazemiyan Pages 133-164Abstract Full Text [PDF 622KB]

Introduction: Family in recent decades have been dramatic changes، this is primarily due to changes in various aspects of the modernization، brings A deeper understanding of the family structure and function. The purpose of this study was to investigate the role of modernization accompanied by the development of communication technologies on family structure.

Method: the qualitative approach and method was used. Society of This study، were selected and included people who were over 30 years old. Among them 28 people، through theoretical sampling and according to data saturation deep semi-structured interviews were done. Questions centered on: the overall changes and changes caused by communication technologies were evaluated، and at any stage of stuff code open، axial and selective for each was.

Findings: major components including : Avoid self، family and community، emotional and spiritual vacuum، change the role of parents، refreshed style connections، virtual world، desacralizing، appearance-oriented، Facilities، lack of comfort، individualism، and tissue culture changes، mental changes، cognitive changes، marriages، families infrastructure changes، decision-making and implementation، Reducing social empathy، the effects of modernity and core components include: structuralism. Finally، and with a focus on the central question of the study، subjects in three major categories circumstances، interactions and outcomes were divided and underlying pattern to understand the effects of modernization with the implementation and communication technology co drawn.

Conclusion: the conclusion that as a result of the communications revolution and modernization، Family-focused change within their structures of communication، and external structural changes with a focus on culture and textures.

This study set out to compare the effectives of Shafiabady’s Multi-Axial Pattern of vocational choice with that of Glasser's Reality Therapy in teachers’ burnout. This was a semi experimental study with pre- and post -test design and a control group. The statistical population included all teachers (420 in total) of all-girls middle schools in Region 4 of Shiraz during the school year 2015-2016. Data collection was done using cluster sampling as follows: First، 15 middle schools، in total، were randomly selected from the northern part (5 schools)، southern part (5 schools)، and central part (5 schools) of Region 4. Then، teachers of the selected schools responded to the Maslach Burnout Inventory (1997). Finally، from each area، 15 teachers with the highest scores in this inventory were selected and placed equally in the experimental group 1، experimental group 2، and control group. Groups 1 and 2 received eight 1.5-hour-long Multi-Axial Pattern of vocational choice and Reality Therapy sessions، respectively. The control group did not receive any intervention. The post-test and 1-month post-intervention follow up were implemented . Analytical results showed that There was no significant difference was observed between the effectiveness and sustainability of Shafiabady's multi-axial pattern and Glasser's reality therapy on teacher burnout and its dimensions.